Adams Edwards (my favourite ancestor, as a potted biography got me started on this lark some little while back) was a bankrupt
This explains why he was always downsizing his business, rather than being able to retire on the profits and why his daughter was married to a gardener, while her first cousin listed theatre going and travelling as his pasttimes in Whos Who. It also explains why all the stories that survive involve money.
Surfing the London Gazette last night, I got the goods on when he was made bankrupt, but not why. Is any paperwork likely to survive?
This explains why he was always downsizing his business, rather than being able to retire on the profits and why his daughter was married to a gardener, while her first cousin listed theatre going and travelling as his pasttimes in Whos Who. It also explains why all the stories that survive involve money.
Surfing the London Gazette last night, I got the goods on when he was made bankrupt, but not why. Is any paperwork likely to survive?
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